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How to pronounce swerve in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms yaw
Type of turning, turn
Type Words
Synonyms curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, trend, veer
Type of turn
Has types peel off, yaw
Derivation swerving
Type Words
Synonyms swerving, veering
Type of turning, turn

Examples of swerve

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Even squirrels wait motionless for hours before they leap out to make me swerve.
From the news-journalonline.com
Kansas and North Carolina have their own soap opera to swerve through this week.
From the pe.com
The assault caused PC Weeks to swerve, which made a taxi behind them swerve too.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Lavery's teenage fighters, full of fierce excitement, dodge and swerve and skip.
From the guardian.co.uk
There's certainly no lack of clarity in the calculations behind Pixar's swerve.
From the online.wsj.com
So go ahead, swerve aggressively and cut off the 11-year-old boys ahead of you.
From the ocregister.com
Thank God, my husband had sharp enough reflexes to swerve over the double line.
From the delawareonline.com
Time was supposed to help the Chiefs swerve back onto the road toward progress.
From the kansas.com
You can't even have a moment in a car without having to swerve to miss a camel.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • The act of turning aside suddenly
  • Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
  • Yaw: an erratic deflection from an intended course
  • Swerve, by the Coca-Cola Company, was a flavored and vitamin-fortified dairy drink introduced in 2003. It contained 51% skim milk, was sweetened by a blend of sugar and sucralose, and provided 30% of the Recommended Daily Allowance of Vitamins A, C & D and Calcium. ...
  • OutWords is a Canadian magazine, published in Winnipeg, Manitoba for the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. ...
  • Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of slang, in-references, and jargon. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses, and the slang itself is often referred to as "carny talk. ...
  • Swerve is the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes. Swerve is always depicted as an Autobot land vehicle with red color. ...
  • To stray; to wander; to rope; To go out of a straight line; to deflect; To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate; To bend; to incline; To climb or move upward by winding or turning; To turn aside ...
  • (Swerved) a state of intoxication from alcohol